Jsa Jokers

roofer1uk

I lost my job as a plasterer 3 weeks ago and went to claim Job seekers allowance today. I came home fuming!
I was told because my wife has a busary as a student Nurse that will effect my claim and I will only recieve a small percentage of it!
ontop of this I cannot claim mortgage help for 13 weeks! 13 weeks? I would have lost my house by then!

So I have to live on 120 quid bursary, feed two kids, pay mortgage and bills?
great country we live in!

And to top it of the women talked to me like I was a Long term unemployed deadleg.

Fu**ing Joke!

maninthestreet

Welcome to the NU Labour Reich's Marxist Paradise.

starsinmycrown

This is utterly disgusting. Once again the benefits system treating honest people like crims when there are thousands fiddling the system. You have children? because you do get a bit more if you do. Have you looked into this? i think its (from memory, about 2k for first child and 550 for second?) But i'll have a look. Once again we are back to the "honest hardworking people are penalised argument". I enquired about bursaries today and I was told my partner and I would get the same as you and yours. My partner has been made redundant, so we may be in the same position as you. The admissions tutor said "unfortunately if you're a regular couple living together you won't get much" Sigh....

starsinmycrown

Oh yeah, re housing benefit, it's taken my partner from december 13th to today to get benefits for housing. Luckily he had savings. I really feel for you. When my partner asked why his claim would take four months they said " it's because so many people are losing their jobs now, we've got a big backlog and we haven't got the staff to deal with all of the new claims."

Erm, hello? Irony...anybody?

clairec79

Contact the bursary people, if you aren't earning she can claim for you and the kids on the bursary

bunny999

roofer1uk wrote: »

I lost my job as a plasterer 3 weeks ago and went to claim Job seekers allowance today. I came home fuming!
I was told because my wife has a busary as a student Nurse that will effect my claim and I will only recieve a small percentage of it!
ontop of this I cannot claim mortgage help for 13 weeks! 13 weeks? I would have lost my house by then!

So I have to live on 120 quid bursary, feed two kids, pay mortgage and bills?
great country we live in!

And to top it of the women talked to me like I was a Long term unemployed deadleg.

Fu**ing Joke!

If you have been paying NI contributions you will be entitled to job seekers allowance (contributions based - not means tested). You can also claim child benefit and child tax credits.

starsinmycrown

did they tell you why you were turned down- was it because you werent eligible for tax based jsa or because they thought you had "too much money" ?

LittleVoice

bunny999 wrote: »

If you have been paying NI contributions you will be entitled to job seekers allowance (contributions based - not means tested). You can also claim child benefit and child tax credits.

It depends whether they were Class 1 (employee) contributions or self-employed classes. If the latter then I believe contribution based JSA is not payable and therefore it would be income based JSA that had to be assessed.

Was the OP a self-employed plasterer or working as an employee?

roofer1uk

Self Employed. No savings and one child aged 6.

stoneman

Tough times OP. I am in the builldings as well, Self-employed stonemason. 35 years doing my job, no work for the past 2 months. I had to claim income based JSA which is the same amount as contributions based. The big laugh is that on top of class 2 NI I also pay class 4, which is a persentage of your profits, that cost me £3,000 last year but amounts to didlly squat when it comes to claiming

shelley_crow

I don't think this decision is right (apart from obviously being unfair), my OH lost his job in January after the company he worked for went into liquidation. I am a student social worker on a bursary similar (but probably less) than your wife and my OH has been awarded JSA.

Have you appealed the decision?